Good for you. We are all in the same boat here. Good luck and keep posting.
Minnie

That's a good attitude.  Just dig your feet in and get through the worst of it (maybe 3-5 days) and then things will begin to look brighter.  Hey, but don't beat yourself up for allowing it to take hold.  Many great ppl have done the same - it sux - but you can overcome it!!  good luck and I will be here if you'd like to talk.

Sincerely,
M

Yeah, you do have a really good attitude and one of the most important fundamentals in quitting is that you absolutely have to want to do it.  I sounds like you do and that is great!  It is hard, and my best advice is try not to focus too much on the w/d period (probably 3-5 days) because the real battle is staying clean in the future.  
Good luck!

Hey, I'm glad you discovered you are not alone. That's one of the many blessings of this site.

I know what you mean about the pills not working anymore.  All that effort to get more and more, all the sacrafices we make (our family, friends, work, pocketbook, health, principles, etc.) and we can't even geet a buzz anymore. Yet we continue to seek it out. If that's not insanity, I don't know what is...

It's a rocky road ahead, I won't lie, but so far worth the effort (for me anyway). I'm at Day #11, c/t off asst. painkillers and benzos. Even at this early stage the life I'm living today is an improvement over the feinding addict I'd become. The people at this site helped me trhough w/d, and we will help you, if you keep posting. Many of us have tips on how to get through it all.

Let us know when you plan to begin, and we'll walk through it with you.

Warmest Regards,

--ATHENA

Thanks so much all for the kind words....I know I shouldn't dwell on the withdrawl because whatever does not kill you only makes you stronger! but in reality I know its going to suck real bad......there hasn't been a day in a long time I went without this beast and I hate it with all my being......I'll stay on here through the whole thing.......Like I said I haven't started WD yet.....a few more days and I'll be ready mentally and physically to trash this monster! My thoughts are with everyone who is doing it too!  Group Hug for luck? High Five for conquest!

I posted in another thread, but I too am new to this site, I found it while trying to find info on Methadone, I have been saying that I am going to quit for ever a month now, well the time has come for me to do it, I quit in September of 06 until December of  06, but I got sucked back into it right around Xmas time, I am an OC addict of the worse kind, I am up to 300 mlgms per day, sometime more, I need all the help I can get, any suggestions? I was planning on using Methadone for a couple of days then tapering off all the way after 6 days or so then, using the Suboxone for a week and slowly tapering off that as well... with some exercise, I tried to start today, but I still have like two days worth of oxy that I can't seem to throw away, So I figure I will start on Saturday when I know I can just lock myself up and go through the ****. I am really glad I found this site, I really need help Yall, I feel so empty inside and full of regret. I know that I can do this, I have done it before and I loved being sober, I don't know what ever encouraged me to come back to the dark side.

Good luck to all of you as well, I am praying for everyone on this site